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UNITED STATES PATENT OEETEE.

LOUIS P. GRIFFIN, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

SUSPENSORY-BAN DAG E.

SPECIFICATION forming part ofl Letters Patent No. 291,592, dated January 8, 1884.'

Application tiled August 23, i883. (No model.)

To all whom it T11/(Ly concern:

Be it known that I, Louis P. GRIFFIN, of the city and county of Providence, and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Suspensoriesp; and I `do hereby declare the following speciiication, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, forming a part of the same, to be a description thereof.

It consists in providing the sack with an elastic loop, through which may pass loosely a tape to be secured to the waistband to hold the sack in its properposition, as will hereiuafter appear, and in certain other details of construction set forth in the claims.

The drawing illustrates in perspective my improved suspensory viewed from the rear.

A is the sack or net-work which receives the scrotum. B is the waistband, which is provided with two depending straps, b b, secured thereto by stitching, by eyelets, or in any preferred manner. The sack A is furnished with buckles C @,which engage said straps and adj ustably and detachably secure the sack to the waistband.. If preferred, however, the sack may be provided with straps and the waistband with buckles, or equivalent means may be employed by which the sack A shall 4beadjustably and detachably secured to the The central portion is secured to the sack A. The tape loosely occupies this loop in order that it may slide 4o therein, and thereby allow the legs to move freely Without causing inconvenience; and-said .loop a is made elastic, in order that all undue pressure upon the urethral track may be avoided and still greater freedom of movement to the body 'be allowed.

The advantages of making the sack adjustable upon the waistband are that the suspensory can be readily adjusted properly to fit the wearer, that it may be used as a` compress in the case of the swelled testicles, and for holding medicated applications. By making the sack detachable it may be partially or wholly removed from the band as the con venience of the wearer may at times demand, and can be removed in order that it may be cleansed. sacks of the same or different sizes. Y

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A suspensory having a waistband, a sack attached thereto, and provided :at its lower It also allows ofthe substitution of edge with an elastic loop, a, and a tape adapted to pass loosely th rough said loop, and to be secured to the waistband, substantially as set forth.

2. A suspensory having its sack adjustably and detachably secured to its waistband, and provided with an elastic loop, a1, adapted to receive loosely a holding-tape, substantially as set forth.

LOUIS I. GRIFFIN.

Witnesses:

EDsoN SALIsRURY JoNEs, EDWARD H. WALTER. 

